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Fish Farming in Pennsylvania
Fish Farm PA is not a destination, but a love, a hobby, a livelihood, or a dream. Pennsylvania waters are ideal for raising sport fish like bass and trout. Commercial aquaculture is a huge industry in Pennsylvania; it is #4 in US trout production, and the #1 US trout fishing state, adding well over a billion dollars a year to the state’s economy. Growers here produce 70% of the trout in the northeastern states. Pennsylvania boasts the world’s largest goldfish farm, largest trout farm east of the Mississippi, and has one of the oldest continually operating trout hatcheries (1902). It is the 11th largest aquaculture producing state.
Fish grown include: bass, trout, bluegills, catfish, crappie, shiners, walleye, dace, carp, suckers, perch, killifish, crayfish, minnows, mummichog, eel, goldfish, mussels, sunfish, tadpoles, pickerel, frogs, and bullhead.
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US Sustainable Seafood Information
Seafood harvests are considered sustainable when managed in a such a way that landings do not deplete stocks beyond their ability to reproduce and rebuild population levels. Another key aspect of sustainability is a consideration of bycatch or environmental damage that is associated with harvesting the product.
Several laws in the USA and abroad have had profound impacts on seafood sustainability issues. The Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 established a U.S. exclusive economic zone (EEZ) between 3 and 200 miles offshore, and created eight regional fishery councils to manage the living marine resources within that area. The bill was amended on October 11, 1996 and re-named the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
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Carp Fishing – Business Or Pleasure
According to the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), nearly half the fish consumed worldwide are raised on fish farms, rather than caught in the wild. In 1980 just 9% of human fish consumption came from aquaculture; today, that figure exceeds 43% – over 45 million tonnes a year.
Globally, consumer demand for fish continues to climb, especially in affluent, developed nations, whilst capture levels of wild fish have remained roughly stable since the mid-1980s. There is, according to the FAO, very little chance of significant increase beyond current catch levels; indeed, with almost three quarters of the world’s fisheries either fully or over exploited, catch levels could easily fall, and it is therefore inevitable that aquaculture will be called on to meet a significant proportion of our rapidly rising demands.
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